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The Actors' Gang is one of Los Angeles'
most enduring theatre ensembles. Founded in 1981 by a
group of renegade theatre
artists, the Gang's mission is to
create bold, original works for
the stage and daring reinterpretations of the
classics. Our work
is raw, immediate, socially minded, and crafted with
the highest artistic standards.
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Over the course of our first 20 years we have produced 68 plays and won over 100
awards, winning acclaim for our interpretations of Shakespeare, Bruchner,
Brecht, Moliere, Aeschylus, Ibsen and Chekhov, while developing in workshop new
plays that address the world today through a prism of satire, popular culture
and raucous stagecraft.
Through co-productions, The Actors' Gang presented the West Coast Premiere of
Eric Bogosian's "Suburbia" with the Namaste Theatre Company, Roger
Guenver Smith's "A Huey P. Newton Story," Danny Hoch's "Jails,
Hospitals, Hip Hop" with Center Theatre Group, and
"Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella" with The Cornerstone Theatre Company.
The Actors' Gang has toured with productions as the US representative at the
Edinburgh Festival and to New York's Public Theatre with "Carnage, A
Comedy"; with "The Imaginary Invalid" to the Rushmore Festival in
New York, and in 2001 saw "Bat Boy, A Musical," developed at the
Actors' Gang, won the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics award for best new
musical Off-Broadway in New York.
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| 1982 |
LA Weekly Award
- Outstanding Direction - "Ubu the King" |
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| 1988 |
LA Drama
Critics Circle - Margaret Harford Award for Excellence in Theatre |
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6 Drama-Logue
Awards (including Outstanding Production) - "Carnage" |
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| 1989 |
Representing
the USA at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival -
"Carnage" |
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| 1991 |
2 Drama-Logue
Awards including Best Production - "Good Woman of Setzuan" |
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LA Drama
Critics Circle Nomination - "Good Woman of Setzuan" |
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| 1993 |
3 Drama-Logue
Awards including Best Production - "Blood! Love! Madness!" |
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3 Drama-Logue
Awards - "Woyzeck" |
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LA Weekly
Production of the Year - "Woyzeck" |
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| 1994 |
1 Ovation Award
& 11 Nominations - "Hysteria" |
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1 Ovation Award
- "The Orestia" |
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3 LA Weekly
Awards - "The Orestia" |
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1 Drama-Logue
Award - "Mein Kampf" |
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1995 |
3 Drama-Logue
Awards - "Peer Gynt" |
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1 Ovation
Nomination - "Peer Gynt" |
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1996 |
4 Ovation
Awards & 6 Nominations - "The Imaginary Invalid" |
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1 Drama Logue
Award - "Asylum" |
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1997 |
2 LA Weekly
Awards & 6 Nominations including Best Musical -
"Euphoria" |
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2 Ovation
Awards including Best Musical - "Euphoria" |
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9 Drama-Logue
Awards including Best Production - "Kick-Ass Militia" |
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1998 |
1 Ovation Award
& 4 Ovation Nominations - "Bat Boy" |
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1 LA Weekly
Award for Best Musical - "Bat Boy" |
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2 Drama Logue
Awards - "Little Man In The Box" |
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8 Backstage
West Garland Awards including Best Production - "Salome" |
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9 Backstage
West Garland Awards including Best Production - "Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella" |
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2 Ovation
Awards - "Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella" |
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1999 |
3 Ovation
Nominations - "Broadway" |
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5 Backstage
West Garland Awards including Best Production - "Broadway" |
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5 Backstage
West Garland Awards including Best Play - "A Fairy Tale" |
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2 Backstage
West Garland Awards - "Four Roses" |
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5 Backstage
West Garland Awards - "Ugly's First Word" |
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2000 |
5 Backstage
West Garland Awards - "Swan Ride" |
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2 Backstage
West Garland Awards - "XXX Love Act" |
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2001 |
3 Ovation
Awards including Best Production and Best Actor - "Under the Lintel" |
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Richard Rogers
Award - The Academy of Arts & Letters - "Bat Boy" |
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8 Drama Desk
Nominations - "Bat Boy" (New York) |
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Outer Critics
Award - "Bat Boy" (New York) |
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Lucille Lortel
for Best Off Broadway Musical - "Bat Boy" (New York) |
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1 L.A. Weekly Award for Supporting Female Performance, The Seagull |
| 2002 |
1 Ovation Award and 5 nominations - The Exonerated |
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1 Ovation nomination - Mephisto |
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2 NAACP nominations - The Exonerated |
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2003 |
1 Ovation nomination - Costume Design, Orlando |
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2004 |
1 L.A. Weekly Award for Leading Female Performance, Self Defense |
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1 L.A. Weekly Award for Supporting Female Performance, Self Defense |
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1 L.A. Weekly Award Nomination for Sound Design, Self Defense |
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